Before I jump into today's main topic of author interviews, I have to issue a public service announcement on my own behalf. 🙂 Please help me out by rating or posting a review of Beautiful and Terrible Things on Amazon. The initial hoopla over the book's release has passed, and my publisher is waiting to … Continue reading Please Review / Author Interviews: The Human Condition
As the book launch for Beautiful and Terrible Things approaches, the calendar is filling up with summertime events. And, my publisher is organizing various giveaway contests for readers to nab free copies of the contemporary novel. Read on for details. Save the Date: Book Launch Party! The Bookery, a wonderful independent bookstore in Manchester, NH, … Continue reading Book Launch Party, Goodreads Giveaway & Free ARC
It's been a long journey -- more than seven months -- but I'm thrilled with the end result: The Wallace House of Pain has been awarded a First Place prize in the Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBA) competition for 2023. For those of you who have been riding along on this entire journey, as my … Continue reading First Place Prize for “The Wallace House of Pain”
Trailers aren't just for movies anymore... I'm very excited to share with you the official trailer for my forthcoming novel, Beautiful and Terrible Things: https://videopress.com/v/fkuLpmLy?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Beautiful and Terrible Things comes out on July 18th. I'll be sharing advance reviews from trade publications and readers in the coming months, as well as special materials related to … Continue reading Official Trailer: Beautiful and Terrible Things
My version of March Madness--any brackets are the punctuation kind. 🙂 A lot of exciting things happened in March on the book front. Here are three tidbits I have not yet shared on this blog, and one ICYMI. The Wallace House of Pain Advances to the Finals for Chanticleer My novelette about a troubled father-son … Continue reading March Madness
If you live in southern New Hampshire, mark your calendars with these two upcoming book fairs -- one right away in Newport and one in June in Hillsborough. Both are free and open to the public. Saturday, March 16, Bookport 2024 at the Richards Free Library, 58 N. Main Street, Newport, NH, 10:00 AM - … Continue reading Upcoming Book Fairs in Southern NH
I realize I haven't posted in a while, but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy! In fact, things are cookin' in my book kitchen. The book projects keeping me busy are: 1) Publishing Beautiful and Terrible Things, with my new publisher Black Rose Writing. Their awesome team is plugging away behind the scenes to … Continue reading What’s Cookin’ in My Book Kitchen
Time to report in on two recent writing events I attended. NHWP 603 Writers’ Conference I was thrilled to be one of five finalists in the "Pitch Party" competition at the 2023 603 Writers' Conference sponsored by the New Hampshire Writers' Project (NHWP) on June 3rd. My submission was for my work-in-progress, a novel entitled … Continue reading It’s a Pitch Party in the 603
Let the editing begin! It's an exciting week because my publisher just assigned me an editor to help burnish my manuscript for Beautiful and Terrible Things into final form. That means we're in the homestretch with publication coming soon!
I recently put together a Reading Guide for a local Book Club whose members were reading my novel Horseshoes and Hand Grenades. Compiling a list of the questions that were floating around in my mind when I wrote the book, plus the ones that actually drove the manuscript, was a lot of fun. Even more … Continue reading Free Reading Guide for Book Clubs